The stated goal is to see what happens when so-called smart chips — which hold medical information in emergency bracelets, financial information in credit card FOBs and security information in passports — can be hacked without physical contact.

the bearer passes through a security door. The virus could then spread

to other systems in the network, depending on the complexity and

cleverness of its programming.”

I think the real motive is a movie script. A guy with a rogue computer chip implanted under his skin could inflict all sorts of damage on the world. In the real world, this would involve lots of re-booting, whereas the Hollywood version would result in lots of explosions.

I can already see the bad guy, with the evil chip, being put down by the action hero, with some sort of hackneyed bon mot: